Nosympathy

Never summer, wow, you must some kind of genius or something. Other nations don't tax diesel as a premium fuel unlike here in the States where we do. Where that is not the case is where GM can sell this car successfully. But, not here. And that was my point. What they should be selling is a small pickup and van with this engine. That would sell and sell well here.

Nosympathy

This thing is DOA. Why oh why would I pay what will be a $2,000-$3,000 premium in purchase price to get the SAME mileage as the gasoline ECO version and have to pay $.70 more per gallon for diesel over regular? INSANE! Hope the dealers have laid in a lot of ketchup and salt cause' they are gonna eat everyone of these dogs that are shoved down their throats. I see GM is back to their stupid ways.

neversummer

I have a feeling though that the oil companies are pretty comfortable with an absolute minimum price per gallon and they're not going lower than that now matter what. If there's an over supply they'll just lower production.

Big Oil learned something the past couple decades about the perceived price ceiling and they are much happier now.

neversummer

Rollo. It's the same old diesel you get at the pump. They just have some injection and timing tricks to burn the fuel better improving emissions as well as some technology to make it less problematic like the old diesels.

GM will do good with this if they make a good engine. Diesel should be much cheaper than gasoline due to lower processing costs. It isn't because of scale and demand issues, that will improve if more are put on the road and the Big Oil allows it.

RolloTomassi

So by clean diesel, is this the same diesel currently sold at gas stations, or is this a different diesel? As pahootaman said, you are gonna pay significantly more per gallon, and it starts at $23k, whereas the gasoline version starts at $17k. What a deal. I can recoup my costs if I have it for 10 years, or drive 100k miles per year.

mrright

Comparsion: The VW Passet diesel TDI is the winning family diesel, Approx 45 mpg-back seat room is spacious and the trunk is extremely large, my kids turned down the Cruze because of the small back area.